Improvement in combination implements



0. A. BABOOGK... Combination Implement.

No. 209,599. Patented Nov. 5,1878.

Witnesses: Inventor:

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CHARLES A. BABOOOK, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT l-N COMBINATION IMPLEM ENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,599, dated November5, 1878; application filed February 26, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BABOOGK, of Buffalo, in the county ofErie and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements on a Combination Implement; and I do hereby declare thatthe following description of my said invention, taken in connection withthe accompanying sheet of drawings, .forms a full, clear, and exactspecification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has special reference to a combined stove-cover, plateand kettle lifter, nail-extractor, hammer, corkscrew, wrench, andcan-opener; and it consists in the novel and peculiar arrangement ofparts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forthandv described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings heretofore mentioned, the figure is an elevation of myimproved combination implement. v

A is the head, and B the handle, of my improved implement. This headconsists of a jaw, O, of gradually-decreasing thickness, the extremityof which is provided with a V-shaped notch, D, and it serves as astove-cover lifter,

"and, by the V-shaped notch D, as a nail and tack extractor. The headfurther consists of a curved claw, E, serving, in conjunction with thejaw G, as a plate-lifter, the relative position of said jaw and clawbeing such as to admit the ordinary sizes of table-plates between them.

The claw E has an extension or projection, F, formed into a hammer-head,by means of which nails, tacks, &c., may be readily driven, and all theother functions of a light hammer performed with perfect ease andconvenience.

Above the heel of the jaw O is a hook, G, by means of which kettles,860., may be carried about by their bails.

On the same sidev with the hammer F is a tapering and coarse screw, H,which serves as a corkscrew.

The handle B'is composed of two converging sides, I I, having bridges Kat suitableintervals to produce angular apertures of various nealed toconvert the metal into malleable iron, if desired; and, to enhance itsappearance and to protect it againstthe influences of moisture,it may beplated with other non-affected metals, coated with Japan varnish, &c.

It will be observed that, in the position in which I have placed thehammer F- i. 6., on the head of the implement, where there is thegreatest amount of metalit can be as conveniently and effectively usedand will be as strong and durable as any other separate hammer. So isthe corkscrew H a very desirable addition to this implement; and tooperate with it I prefer to hold the implement steady and screw thecorked bottle onto said screw, after which the cork can be mostpositively re moved.

The can-opener L forms a part of the handle B, and, owing to itsproximity to the protuberating part 9 of said handle, which forms thefulcrum of said can-opener, it acts as a very powerful instrument forthe purpose mentioned.

The arrangement of bail-hook Gr on the side of the implement and itsconstruction, as

shown, enable a bucket or other vessel to be I conveniently lifted byits bail.

A hook at the end of the implement, though well suited to the purpose oflifting stove-covers, (which are recessed, and not accessible from allsides, like a bail,) would be impracticable for raising heavy buckets,by reason of the great leverage and consequent strain. The leverage isdesirable in a stove-cover lifter, which acts in a manner analogous toprying, and which sus= 'tains but a slight weight. My device affordsthis, and at the same time affords also a bail hook which is so arrangedthat there will be" no leverage at all to overcome in raising a bucket.

Having thus fully described my invention, I In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as claim as new and desire to secure by Letters myinvention I have hereto set my hand and Patent of the United States--affixed my seal in the presence of two subscrib- As an article ofmanufacture,acombinationinin g witnesses. strument having at one end astove-cover lifter, tack-drawer, and hammer, and at the other end CHAS.A. BABGOGK. [L. 3.] a can-opener, and provided at intermediate pointswith a corkscrew, H, and bail-hook G, Attest: the latter being turned uptoward the handle, MICHAEL J. STARK, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth. FRANK HIRSGH.

